Business & Management posters
LearnPosters has 100 free printable business & management posters, grouped into 7 topics: Strategy, Operations, People & organisations, Business finance, Entrepreneurship. The frameworks a business degree keeps returning to. They are made for undergraduates, professionals and anyone revising the subject. Every one downloads as a vector PDF that prints sharp on US Letter, A4 or a copy-shop A1.
Strategy, operations, finance, people and the analytics underneath them. The models that appear in every module, on one sheet each.
100 free printable posters · 7 topics · vector PDF
Strategy
Competitive position, and the frameworks for analysing it.
Porter's Five Forces
The five pressures that decide how profitable an industry can be.
SWOT
The four-box audit, and the discipline that stops it being a list.
PESTLE
Scanning the macro-environment across six dimensions.
The Value Chain
Where margin is actually created inside a firm.
Generic Strategies
Three viable positions, and the one that is not.
The BCG Matrix
Sorting a portfolio by market growth and relative share.
The Ansoff Matrix
Four growth directions, ranked by risk.
VRIO
Whether a resource can actually sustain an advantage.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Competing where there is no competition, and the grid for finding it.
Core Competence
What makes a capability core, and why it matters more than products.
Business Model Canvas
The nine blocks of a business model, on one page.
Stakeholder Mapping
Who matters, how much, and what to do about each.
Scenario Planning
Planning for several futures rather than forecasting one.
M&A
Why deals are done, and why most fail to create value.
Competitive Advantage
What it actually is, and how long it lasts.
Operations
Processes, quality, supply chains and throughput.
Little's Law
The relationship between inventory, throughput and time.
Theory of Constraints
Every system has one bottleneck. Improving anything else does nothing.
The Seven Wastes
The categories of activity that consume resource without adding value.
Just in Time
Producing only what is needed, when it is needed — and what it costs.
Process Mapping
Drawing what actually happens, not what the manual says.
DMAIC
The five-phase structure for reducing variation in a process.
Inventory Models
How much to order and when, and the trade-off underneath.
Capacity
Design, effective and actual capacity — and the two ratios between them.
The Cost of Quality
Four categories of quality cost, and which ones to spend on.
Supply Chain
The flows, the tiers, and the effect that amplifies demand upstream.
The Project Triangle
Scope, time and cost — and why you cannot fix all three.
Critical Path
The longest path through a project, and why only it sets the deadline.
Agile & Waterfall
Two delivery approaches, and what each assumes about the requirements.
Choosing Metrics
What makes a metric useful, and the ways they get gamed.
Service Operations
How services differ from manufacturing, and what that changes.
People & organisations
Motivation, teams, culture and leadership.
Maslow's Hierarchy
Five levels of need, and the critique that every exam expects.
Herzberg's Two Factors
Why removing dissatisfaction does not produce satisfaction.
Self-Determination Theory
The three needs behind intrinsic motivation, better evidenced than most.
Tuckman's Stages
How teams develop, and why the difficult stage is necessary.
Team Roles
The nine behavioural roles, and why a team of one type fails.
Leadership Styles
The main styles, and the situations each suits.
Organisational Culture
What culture actually is, and the models used to describe it.
Change Management
Kotter's eight steps, and the one most often skipped.
Managing Conflict
Five modes, and when each is the right choice.
Job Design
The five features that make work motivating, and the states they produce.
Performance Management
What appraisal is for, and the biases that distort it.
Recruitment & Selection
The selection methods, ranked by how well they predict performance.
Organisational Structures
The main structures, and the trade-off each makes.
Emotional Intelligence
The four domains, and what the evidence actually supports.
Business finance
Reading the statements and deciding where money goes.
The Three Statements
What each statement shows, and how they connect.
The Balance Sheet
The accounting equation, and what sits on each side.
The Income Statement
From revenue down to net profit, and what each subtotal means.
The Cash Flow Statement
Three sections, and why a profitable company can still run out of money.
Financial Ratios
The ratios that matter, grouped by what they test.
Break-Even
The volume at which a business stops losing money.
Budgeting
The budget types, and what variance analysis actually tells you.
Investment Appraisal
Four methods for deciding whether a project is worth it.
Time Value of Money
Why a pound today is worth more than a pound next year.
Cost of Capital
What it costs a firm to raise money, weighted across its sources.
Working Capital
The cash tied up in day-to-day operations, and how to free it.
Costing
Absorption, marginal and activity-based costing, and when each misleads.
Forecasting
Building a forecast that can be argued with, rather than one that is asserted.
Sources of Finance
Where money comes from, and what it costs in cash or in control.
Entrepreneurship
Starting, validating and funding a venture.
The Lean Startup
Build, measure, learn — and why the loop runs in that order backwards.
Product-Market Fit
What it feels like, and the measures used to test for it.
Customer Discovery
How to interview customers without leading them to your answer.
Startup Metrics
The numbers that matter, and the ratio investors look at first.
Funding Stages
What each round is for, and what is expected at it.
Cap Tables & Dilution
Who owns what, and what each round does to that.
The Pitch Deck
The slides investors expect, in the order they expect them.
Valuing a Startup
Why pre-revenue valuation is negotiation rather than calculation.
The Business Plan
What a plan is actually for, and what belongs in it.
Legal Structures
The main structures, and what each does to liability and tax.
Intellectual Property
The four main rights, what each protects, and how long.
Go-to-Market
Choosing a route to customers, and matching it to the price point.
Founder Agreements
What to agree in writing before there is anything to argue about.
Why Startups Fail
The documented reasons, in rough order of frequency.
Analytics
Turning business data into decisions.
Four Kinds of Analytics
What each level answers, and the effort each requires.
A/B Testing
Running an experiment that produces a trustworthy answer.
Significance
What a p-value means, and the four things it does not.
Cohort Analysis
Grouping users by when they arrived, and why aggregate metrics hide the truth.
Funnels
Where users drop out, and the arithmetic of stacked conversion rates.
Segmentation
Splitting customers usefully, and the test for whether a segment is real.
Forecasting Methods
The main techniques, and what each assumes about the past.
Dashboards
What belongs on a dashboard, and what belongs in a report.
Data Quality
The dimensions of quality, and the cost of getting them wrong.
Reading a Relationship
Interpreting a business correlation without over-claiming.
Survey Design
Writing questions that produce usable answers.
Presenting Analysis
Structuring a finding so it produces a decision.
Analysis Traps
The mistakes that produce confident and wrong conclusions.
Data Pipelines
How data gets from source to dashboard, and where it breaks.
Business law
Contracts, structures and duties.
Forming a Contract
The elements a contract needs to exist at all.
Contract Terms
Which terms matter most, and what happens when each is breached.
Employment Status
Employee, worker or contractor — and why the label does not decide it.
Directors' Duties
What a director must do, and to whom it is owed.
Data Protection
The principles behind GDPR-style regimes, and the rights they create.
Consumer Rights
The statutory rights that cannot be contracted away.
Competition Law
The conduct that is prohibited outright, and the conduct that is assessed.
Negligence
The elements a claimant must prove, and where businesses are exposed.
Insurable Risk
Which business risks are insurable, and the duties on the insured.
Resolving Disputes
The routes available, in increasing order of cost.
Agency
When one person can bind another, and the two kinds of authority.
Insolvency
The tests for insolvency, and the procedures that follow.
Commercial Contract Clauses
The clauses that decide what happens when things go wrong.
Compliance
Building a compliance function that reduces risk rather than producing paper.
Questions about the Business & Management posters
- What is the Business & Management section of LearnPosters?
- The frameworks a business degree keeps returning to. Strategy, operations, finance, people and the analytics underneath them. The models that appear in every module, on one sheet each.
- What topics do the Business & Management posters cover?
- 100 posters across 7 topics. Strategy — Competitive position, and the frameworks for analysing it. Operations — Processes, quality, supply chains and throughput. People & organisations — Motivation, teams, culture and leadership. Business finance — Reading the statements and deciding where money goes. Entrepreneurship — Starting, validating and funding a venture. Analytics — Turning business data into decisions. Business law — Contracts, structures and duties.
- Who are the Business & Management posters for?
- The business & management charts are pitched at undergraduates and professionals — the frameworks and equations a course keeps returning to. Nothing here is tied to a school year, so a curious beginner and someone revising the same material for an exam are looking at the same business & management chart.
- Which Business & Management poster should I print first?
- Porter's Five Forces, SWOT and PESTLE are the ones people reach for first — they are the references the rest of the business & management set assumes you already have on the wall.Porter's Five ForcesSWOTPESTLE
- Are the Business & Management posters free to print?
- Yes — all 100 of them. Each business & management poster is a free vector PDF that needs no account, prints on US Letter or A4, and enlarges to A1 without softening. Home, classroom, library and tutoring use are all covered by the licence.Read the licence
Where the business & management charts come from
These posters summarise. When you need the full account — or the normative text a chart is compressing — start here.
- Harvard Business Review — Harvard Business Publishing. Where most of the strategy frameworks on these charts were first published.
- Strategic management — Wikipedia. Provenance and critique for each named framework.